Author: WILDEMAN, Emile De :
Title: Compagnie du Kasai. Mission permanente d'études scientifiques. Résultats de ses Recherches Botaniques et Agronomiques. Mis en ordre et annotés par E. De Wildeman.
Description: .: Bruxelles, Imprimerie A. Lesigne, 1910, in-4°, (27,5 cm), viii pp + 463 pp + 2 large folding maps bound in at the end + 45 black. & white plates outside the text. Indexed. Bound in contemporary half dark brown morocco. Top edge gilt. (very nice copy). Rare original edition of the scientific report by E. De Wildeman of the botanical studies made by the ''Compagnie du Kasai'' at the beginning of the 20th c. The company was seeking to exploit the rich (tropical) Kasai region for the cultivation of e.g. rubber producing trees, coffee, tobacco, fibre plants...cotton....With information on the early estabishments (the Lacourt plantation, the Dima farm. Some chapters are devoted to means of fighting tropical diseases. Rare, and very nice copy. .

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